On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > There is a proposal to change the default behaviour of 'git push' on the > Git mailing list. The goal of this message is to encourage you to discuss > it before it happens (or the change is aborted, depending on the outcome > of the discussion). > > In the current setting (i.e. push.default=matching), 'git push' without > argument will push all branches that exist locally and remotely with the > same name. This is usually appropriate when a developer pushes to his own > public repository, but may be confusing if not dangerous when using a > shared repository. The proposal is to change the default to 'upstream', > i.e. push only the current branch, and push it to the branch 'git pull' > would pull from. Another candidate is 'current'; this pushes only the > current branch to the remote branch of the same name. +1 for 'upstream'. "Push" should mirror "pull" by the principle of least surprise. Cheers, -Nathan -- http://n8gray.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html